Nonsense. It's not perfect for landscapes, which was never it's design goal. Used for sports, action, portraits and pretty much everything else it's a great lens and keeps most of it's reach.

Robert

It may not be designed towards landscape, but the corners are downright mushy, and never sharpen up. When paying $1600 for a lens, you'll expect it can do better. But then again, full frame digital probably wasn't on Nikons roadmap in 2003, when the VR 1 was released.